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Dashboards

In the past I’ve built apps with R Shiny, and I’ve also developed a few data visualisations with d3.js. Given that R Shiny is an R based Back End Server that renders a Front End in Java Script, it seemed like it would be possible to integrate a d3.js visualisation into an R Shiny App. After some quick research, it turns out that it is possible, this blog explains how to do it, and here is an example (please note this is hosted on Shiny.io and sometimes runs out of free hours each month)

I’ve created a dashboard to display the current most popular artists and tracks on lastfm using the Shiny tool developed by RStudio. If you just want to play with the dashboard click here if you want to know more about how I did it please read on